Microsoft: Novell is toast and the patent Juggernaut rolls on
I experienced a strong sense of deja vu and began to wonder if this was going to be a reprise of Sun’s sale to Oracle and the forking of OpenOffice, one of the crown jewels of GNU/Linux. The premise of this article, to paraphrase an American general, is that old software never dies, it just gets forked. The question therefore is: is OpenSUSE safe and what is Microsoft up to?
Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux
Vladimir Putin has signed an order calling for Russian federal authorities to move to GNU/Linux, and for the creation of ‘a single repository of free software used in the federal bodies of executive power
Facebook and Social networking: Tim Berners-Lee closes the stable door after the horse has bolted
Since I started using computers and since I abandoned the choppy waters of Windows for the safe harbour of FOSS, the internet has experienced huge change and rapid growth. Better web browsers, file sharing, iPhones, iPads and other touch screen tablets too. The one thing that has not changed much though is that GNU/Linux always seems to breast the tape second. It seems fated to forever be behind the curve. I can live with that as long as I’m using my software my way. Free and open. However, that has implications for freedom and privacy that I don’t like living with—and neither does Tim Berners-Lee. Specifically, he has been venting about those very things in respect of social networks and how they threaten that freedom and privacy. Read the article at Freesoftware Magazine.
Linux Howto #1: How To Install And Use Ndiswrapper
LINUX HOWTO 1st installment (Errata: see below)
This is the first in a new series called Linux HOWTOS. Every week I will post a video explaining how to accomplish something using a GNU/Linux opera…
Linus Torvalds On Gnu/linux
Linus Torvalds states that without the GNU software from the Free Software Foundation such as the GNU C compiler it would not have been possible to develop the Linux kernel or most of the “open sou…
Metisse On Gnu/linux Demo
A demo of Metisse, an X-based window system designed with two goals in mind: make it easy to design and implement innovative window management techniques and conform to existing standards and be ro…